For immediate release: Brookfield Craft Center board member Joanne Hunter will be honored by the Women’s Club of Brookfield as Woman of the Year at the clubs annual event at Della Francesca’s in Danbury tonight, May 14th, 2014. Joanne is being recognized for her tireless commitment to bringing art not only to the Brookfield community … Read more
The Wire Work and Soldering Workshop shows you how to create a beautiful 2-3’ hanging wall art out of copper wire. You begin with a drawing of your intended object, translate it into copper wire, soldering all the joints together. Solder and soldering irons techniques will be taught as well as safety techniques. This piece … Read more
What do the Statue of Liberty and Paul Revere have in common? Repousse! Repousse is a metalworking process in which a malleable metal is shaped by hammering from the reverse side to create a design in low relief. Chasing is the opposite technique to repoussé, and the two are used in conjunction to create a … Read more
The Mosaics Workshop is a fun, hands-on workshop will teach how to plan, design, prepare the tesserae, create and grout a mosaic tile plaque. Different types of glazed tiles will be used while we discuss so many other types of material suitable for mosaic use. Safety and tool use will be explored as well as … Read more
